Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. From LearnThat.org. [Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)]
Adjective : pecuniary difficulties. ,pecuniary tributes. From Dictionary.com.
It will be of advantage to her, and to me, both in pecuniary and other respects. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference
The charge I publicly bring against Mr Norton (who has brought so many against me) is a far graver charge than any injustice in pecuniary matters. From Wordnik.com. [English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The beginning of a differentiation in consumption even antedates the appearance of anything that can fairly be called pecuniary strength. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Either those responsible are just huge Rangers fans, or they see in the team's recent hot streak a pecuniary, albeit underhanded, opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [NBC Dallas-Fort Worth - Top Stories] Reference
So far as regards the selective conservation of capacities or aptitudes in individuals, these two lines may be called the pecuniary and the industrial. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Smith's "Invisible Hand" has many more applications than the "pecuniary" one to which it has been banished. From Wordnik.com. [You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind To: A Noble Lie?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Except for Paulistas and Obamite children, nobody gives money without some kind of pecuniary hook embedded inside. From Wordnik.com. [An Abramoff Connection Among McCain’s ‘Bundlers’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Nor did either of the two, for some few seconds, make any effort to recover himself; both remaining in a kind of pecuniary swoon. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Other contestations may arise between two states, such as pecuniary demands, affrays among their citizens, & whatever else may arise between any two nations. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
'Tipping' - a pecuniary reward given for good service. From Wordnik.com. [If IT Were YOU] Reference
If you mean that public life holds out pecuniary rewards. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Depression and pecuniary worries is the meaning of this sign. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
As to the pecuniary matter, I am willing to pay according to my ability, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
This can't go on, unless Ameri can capitalism somehow has lost its pecuniary motive. From Wordnik.com. [The Microsoft Solution] Reference
The influx of volunteers put pressure on the leadership - both organizational and pecuniary. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
And pecuniary considerations bred even more terror and terrorists where there were none before. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
She has never been willing to accept pecuniary aid from any friend, not even from Mr. Buzzby, or the. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
We seek out the intemperate and ask them to reform, assisting them with pecuniary aid when necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference
After a time of irksome tasks and pecuniary worry, you will be rewarded by a time of ease and wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
And there is a pecuniary reason concealed, relating to some foreign courts, which to you I need not explain. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference
You will have need of patience in your daily life, and will sometimes be troubled by pecuniary difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
No pecuniary reward was to be his; he was a poor man, and just for the love of exploring the unknown he started off. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
It is so accepted by the negroes, who, to avoid extinction or slavery, seek refuge amid physical and pecuniary hardships. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
The human aspect peeps out in the mention of alms and oblations; centres of pilgrimage have always had a rich pecuniary value. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
We have a general arbitration treaty for the settlement of pecuniary claims with all the Central and South American Republics. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
So, not only had the emigration scheme failed, but, so far as the Doctor had been moved by pecuniary motives, he had also failed. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Dr Beke travelled individually for information; but, in aid of his laudable enterprise, received some pecuniary assistance from the African. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
He did not take advantage of the popular credulity for his own pecuniary gain, and was therefore morally far above the plane of an ordinary charlatan. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
However, it is also a satire on the mores of the rich — and it is interesting to see how little has changed in what Veblen termed "pecuniary reputability.". From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus Of Pleasure] Reference
The more he pondered proudly over his pecuniary misfortunes, the more grave the situation appeared to him, and the more imperious the necessity of a rupture. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The temperate man desires to hold all his pleasures within the limits of what is honorable, and with a proper reference to the amount of his own pecuniary means. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The proposition that business is not a property or pecuniary right which can be protected by equitable injunction is utterly without foundation in precedent or reason. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
The Frenchmen who invented the machine brought it into use in England, but they were much hampered and discouraged by difficulties, and it was never a pecuniary success to them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Various plans to this end have been suggested and will need consideration, but none of them has been sufficiently matured to warrant the United States in extending pecuniary aid. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
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